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This is how my week went (Stream of Consciousness): 12X's, 8X's, beams, track, rain, sleet, cold, night, splinter, dance floor, ro...

  Here are some answers asked by various emails, search strings, personal experiences etc. You can't buy a Fisher/ Chapman Dolly. They...

  Hi all. I just finished my first week on the new job. As I said on Twitter earlier today, "They didn't fire me yet."  So far...

  An unfortunate, and somewhat ironic, by-product of working in the movie business is that you have little time to see any actual movies unl...

  Well, we've almost made it through another year. The 21st came and went without incident, so I've gone ahead and lined up my next ...

Just a little horn blowing. The trailer for the movie I was working on last winter has just been released (I think it's also running a...

  We just wrapped our latest epic. Eight weeks of handheld work is over. I actually didn't think I would be able to bench press an Alexa...

 First of all, a congratulations to my old compadre Dolly Grip Frank Boone and Key Grip Eddie Evans on the success of The Walking Dead.  Arg...

  This post grew out of a conversation between Wick and Sanjay about an upcoming job Sanjay has in Poland and Germany. As I know very litt...

   The movie I'm doing now is all handheld. When I say that, I mean ALL handheld. We don't even have a dolly. It's this director...

   This is something that we have harped on time and again. I often get emails from young beginning dolly grips asking what they can do to i...

 I apologize for being so sparse on the posts lately. I've been in the middle of a twelve week show and we just wrapped. All in all, it ...

I ran over one a few weeks ago and it actually derailed the dolly. It ran it the %^&* off the track. The fracking thing is as thick as a...

Every now and then, I see one I wish I'd done. Nice work, Sean.

  I am a huge John Wayne fan. One of my earliest memories is of seeing True Grit  at the drive-in. I couldn't have been more than three ...

  I often get asked about the importance of a level track vs a "lay of the land" one. My reply is usually that I'm more concer...

For years I had an old ammo box that I had ripped the top off, and then velcroed it to whatever dolly I was using. As much as I liked ha...

  It was interesting to read all the comments and emails from my last post. All the old-timers pretty much came up with the same answers, wh...

Those of you who are regular readers may have briefly caught a post I did last week entitled So You Want To Be A Dolly Grip. It listed some ...

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